Tracy Harmon’s Strange Seas introduces a whimsical world where marine biology meets creative art through thirty distinct, hand-drawn scenes. The book plays with real ocean behaviors and turns them into fun, imaginative concepts, like a boxfish running an underwater package delivery route or an octopus...

Pruning a hydrangea begins long before the first cut, because the shrub’s identity determines where its next flowers are forming. Lorraine B. Ballato's Hydrangea Pruning guides readers from identification to the appropriate pruning moment, explaining how buds on last year’s stems follow a different calendar...

In 72 Unique Logic Puzzles, Gazmend Ceno introduces Albcell, a 10-by-10 number puzzle built from alternating diamonds beside circles. Every row must contain the digits zero through nine once. The same rule applies to each column, then repeats inside every irregular cell group. Odd numbers...

Healthy Sweets Cookbook by KJ Walt is a comprehensive collection of homemade desserts and sweet snacks. The book contains a wide variety of recipes. They range from cookies, brownies, pies, cheesecakes, and puddings to sweet breads, syrups, and snack mixes. It gives the reader a...

Steamed and Steamy: Recipes from the Steampunk World of Industralia by Lori Alden Holuta is a cookbook that combines excerpts from novels written by the author. The anecdotes are about food and cooking. Not all the recipes are written in traditional format. Some of the...

Starting Your First Potted Vegetable Garden by E. Hughes is an easy and practical book for anyone who wants to create a garden but is uncertain where to start. Many people who love plants or wish to grow vegetables feel inhibited because they believe they...

Food with Spirit: Alcohol-infused Recipes by Alicia Shevetone is the cookbook you didn’t know you wanted, but once you have it in your hands, you can’t wait to get started. Beautifully and thoughtfully produced, the book is divided into five sections, with recipes for Appetizers,...

Can a camera (and thus photography) change your life? This is the theme that Alix Lee explores in The Way of the Shoestring Outdoor Photographer. In this book, the author recounts his travel experiences visiting Hong Kong in the 1900s and the Isle of Man...

In Adventures of a Chess Girl, Katie Kormanik weaves her memoir with chess as the throughline. The book starts in 2009. That year, Katie joined the Pan-Ams tournament for university students, hoping to have fun with friends. To her surprise, the matches and players reignited...

The Endless Art Challenge Card Deck by Megan Roy is a unique way to add a creative twist to your art or have some fun with fellow artists. This is the go-to way to fight a creative block with an assortment of ninety prompts that...